“The Roman empire did not die any differently, though, it’s true, more slowly, whereas this time we can expect a more sudden conflagration … Christian charity will prove itself powerless. The times will be cruel.”
— Jean Raspail, The Camp Of The Saints
Pope Francis is back in the news again and for all the wrong reasons.
This time he is boasting that he will cross the Mexican border into the United States to show solidarity with Hispanic illegal aliens. This isn’t a satire from The Onion. No, Fox News Latino is reporting this as a genuine news story.
Of course it is a pure Cultural Marxist publicity stunt – something that one would expect from a PC leftwing pop culture star like a Bono, Sean Penn, or Brad Pitt to do. It’s all for show, all for generating headlines in the TV and print media. Pope Francis seems to think he is the Madonna of the Vatican. Maybe he is.
Last year, Francis was featured in a fawning Rolling Stone cover story. This was shortly after he flew his jet to the Italian Mediterranean island Lampedusa to bless the invading African boat people and scold the Italians about their “racism” and “Islamophobia.” Yes, this Liberation Theology Pope is pro-Muslim, pro-homosexual, and most definitely pro-Latino. He’s even on good terms with Castro’s Cuba.
Here at Occidental Dissent, we take a firm, but fair approach to the leaders of all tax exempt anti-Southern, anti-White, anti-Christian organizations and really see no difference between Pope Francis and George Soros. We’re certainly not anti-Catholic, but there is no use in denying at this point that Cultural Marxists now have the upper hand at the top of the Vatican.
One positive point to remember is that lots of Hispanic Catholics have fought on our side in the past in Spain and elsewhere. Just because communists have tried to rebrand themselves as Sandinista Catholic priests, well, check out what happened to Liberation Theology Archbishop Romero in El Salvador:
Thanks Hunter.
Great editing.
This is one of our best!
Martin Luther never wrote a better anti corrupt Pope piece than this.
This Rolling Stone Magazine, pro queer, pro Muslim , attack our border control – he s$&&@$&
This clown is a joke and a disaster for the church…a total marxist through and through. The last decent pope was Pius XII
I, along with other Catholics loyal to the real teachings of the RCC as taught in the Nicene Creed and other magisterial documents, are outraged by this Pope antics. Most of us are praying for his conversion or his replacement. We’re also battening down the hatches by teaching ourselves the faith and supporting priests who are willing to teach the faith without PC nonsense. Belloc said “Europe is the faith” and since it was that faith that built Europe from the ashes of the Roman Empire, serious Catholics like myself are doing what we can to preserve it, in spite of the efforts of this foolish man to trivialize it.
Christianity “doesnt see race”.
Thanks Stephen and yes it is good to “keep the faith”.
It is also important to recognize unpleasant realities, as too many American Conservatives just will not do – they hold on to loyalties to people, institutions that were once on our side many, many years ago. Hell, most White Southerners were loyal to the Democrat party up until the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. They operated under the idea that “my daddy was a Democrat, my grand daddy was a Democrat, so by God I am a Democrat” as if the Democrat Party of the 1980s – Marion Barry, Jessie Jackass Jackson, Coleman young, Jacob Javitz, Carl,Levin was the same party as Yellow dog Southern Democrats from 1870-1965.
Losing the Papacy and the top of the American Catholic Church is a huge loss for us, akin to losing the US Presidency and the New York City mayoralty . But, lost it is.
We are definitely out of power in these areas and can and are facing institutional persecution. How do we do out of power and suffering persecution? We shall see.
But, make no mistake this liberation theology Pope is a bad one, he wouldn’t get featured with glowing press on The Cover of the Rolling Stone Magazine or like Rand Paul on the cover of Time Magazine.
We live in interesting times.
Excellent article, I am in complete agreement with Mr. Dalton above and would like to add this ; the true Catholic church, of which only a small remnant survives the deceptions of Vatican 2, is the greatest enemy of the organized forces of evil which could be called Judeo-masonic EUSSR-Sodom. The enemy knows this and has been infiltrating and gnawing away at the foundation for well over a century, finally breaking through and installing their man in the highest place. My point is : please don’t look at Bergoglio and his coven of faggots and marxists and mistake them for the Catholic Church. For more in depth info see the website of Hugh Akins, or youtube videos of Bishop Williamson.
Pope Francis is clearly addicted to seeing his name in the newspapers.
The liberation theology faction has been pretty strong in the RC church since the 60’s. This tendency was rolled back a little with John Paul and Benedict, but now is back. Still liberation theology has mostly been abandoned where is was the biggest threat, in Latin America, and mostly just serves to make the RC church another crappy progressive church like the C of E.
??? Sede Vacante ???
Everyone knows I warned you—years before it happened!
Not that I’m defending him. I’m not an admirer of this Pope. But in the article he says that he wishes to cross the border to show solidarity with illegal immigrants into the US but that his schedule will not allow it. It’s merely a factual quibble. Most definitely Francis is not one of us.
Maybe we should call him “the Dope” instead of the Pope.
Avoid supernaturalism.
The Pope’s defenders will at times argue he’s taken out of context, mistranslated.
I expect this is true at times, but what I gather is the Pope will say or do anything for popularity. His goal is to grow an Institution, not to serve God or uphold principles.
I’d thought a recent, Jan. 19th, comment of Pope Francis’s was conservative. He took a stand against the “institutional colonisation” of the third world. This is to say, he stood against globalism. However, the comment might only have been regarding family size. He said Catholics needn’t breed like rabbits, but he doesn’t want ideological colonisation on the matter of family size.
Quote: “Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonized,” Francis said.”
Sounds like a job for the border militia.
Excellent job Jack keep up the good work.
We should resist condemning this Pope excessively, however.
If he ever does make a positive comment, we should be sure to praise him. The Catholic Trads seem to continually produce brilliant thinkers.
One difference between Pope Francis and George Soros. The Pope doesn’t have the money and power that Soros has.
Before he went to welcome the black muslims invading Italy he should have sent an assistant to the Vatican library to:
look at the cerca 800 muslim invasion of Rome which sent the then Pope fleeing to a rural fortress for several years
the fact that the wall was built around the Vatican to keep muslim bandits out several years later
the muslim invasion of the town of Otranto Italy cerca 1500 in which they beheaded every man in town plus the Catholic clergy and bishop
and the battle of Lepanto around 1590 in which the then Pope led the southern Catholic countries to a resounding defeat of the Turkish muslim slave traders in a naval battle led by the Spanish admiral Don Juan of Austrias.
Then the bishops and clergy wonder why White Catholics have left the Church. One thing I admire about Protestants is that so many have left the marxist world council of churches denominations to found their own denominations that concentrate on RELIGION not marxist anti White politics.
Many Christian Churches are anti White. The Lutherans are the largest importer of black african muslims in the country. As soon as they arrive the Lutherans set them up on lifelong welfare benefits while getting huge government grants to “help” the somalians.
All that Lutheran “help” comes from you and me, the White taxpayer.
The Pope before commie Francis “retired”. No Pope has ever retired before. I bet he was forced out by some commie faction.
If you are interested read books by Malachy Martin. He is an American priest who spent most of his career in the Vatican. He claims the upper levels of the Church are rife with communism and satanism. I don’ t know about satanism but the communism could be true.
Back during the WW2 occupation of Vietnam the communist resistance to the Japanese sent many recruits to the Buddhist monasteries. 20 years later they led the charge against the French, the pro west anti communist governments after the French left and the American military in vietnam.
The Catholic Church is forever. He too will pass.
“The Pope before commie Francis “retired”. No Pope has ever retired before. I bet he was forced out by some commie faction.”
I’d put my money on that faction being the damned Jesuits. Even before the French Revolution these guys were being a pest (among their antics we can find almost creating a de facto independent Amerindian state with their Guarani missions in South America, and fomenting unrest among African slaves in the plantation Caribbean). The Western world would react by forcing the CC to ban them from the 1760’s onwards, but this ban would be lifted in the XIXth century.
Do you think that the land of the free and the home of the brave could be truly seeking a permanent solution to the problem of illegal immigration or do we just want to see politician after politician offer their do nothing schemes to secure money and votes to allow them to become rich off this never ending problem?
In my opinion the best most practical and cost effective solution to illegal immigration is to determine the cost per illegal immigrant in US dollars and then set that as the reward and then allow bounty hunters to capture them dead or alive.
This would remove the burden of securing our borders off the bumbling politicians / bureaucrats / law enforcement people and put the solution down into the hands of private sector individuals whose income for capturing/killing the illegals would benefit the local community with the reward money being spent locally.
For example, if it is determined that each illegal cost our country $24,000.00 and a reward for that amount is set, then if a bounty hunter who could average capturing or killing 100 per month he could make a good profit and the money would be put back into the local community which would help offset the drain of money of illegals sending their money back to the countries they came from.
By implementing the above plan, the problem of illegal immigration would be completely eliminated in just a few short months as thousands of illegals would be removed and the bounty hunters made rich and the remaining illegals not yet apprehended would be streaming out of our country to get away as fast as they could.
The Roman Catholic church has always been as much, or more of a political control organization as a church.
God bless all true Christians who have resisted all these corruptions and openly fought the Islamic invaders.
Rule Britannia – Britannia rule the waves.
Britons never will be slaves!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgd9nYqVz2s
RULE BRITANNIA
(18th Century – Traditional British)
When Britain first, at Heaven’s command
Arose from out the azure main,
Arose from, arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter, the charter of the Land
And Guardian Angels sang this strain:
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
The nations, not so blest as thee,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall;
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful from each foreign stroke;
More dreadful, dreadful from each foreign stroke.
As the loud blast, the blast that tears the skies
Serves but to root the native oak.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
Thee haughty tyrants ne’er shall tame;
All their attempts to bend thee down;
All their, all their attempts to bend thee down.
Will but arouse; arouse thy gen’rous flame,
But work their woe and their renown.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
The Muses still with Freedom found
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Shall to thy happy, happy coast repair.
Blest isle with matchless, with matchless beauty crown’d,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves.
“In the 1930’s, we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within […] Right now they are in the highest places, and they are working to bring about change in order that the Catholic Church will no longer be effective against Communism.” ~ Dr Bella Dodd
As Bishop of Buenos Aires, Pope ‘call me Jorge’ Francis promoted Talmudic Noahide Judaism. He sent diocesan priests to train at the Rishkin Noahide Centre in Israel as part of their formation.
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/pope-francis-sent-his-priests-to-chabad.html
He is currently importing Chabad Lubivitcher Noahide (Talmud for the goyim) into the post conciliar Church.
Ugly Truth says:
February 1, 2015 at 12:35 am
“In the 1930’s, we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within […] Right now they are in the highest places, and they are working to bring about change in order that the Catholic Church will no longer be effective against Communism.” ~ Dr Bella Dodd
Jack responds:
We at OD strongly oppose Conspiracy theory explanations of things as there is most always a regular explanation of why supposedly White men, White institutions go bad.
Remember, the 5 types of White traitors are (most are combinations)
1) Gratchiites – wealthy, noble Whites who get power, prestige by championing the non White masses.
2) Trucklers – lower class White who go with the flow, push Non White causes to gain personal power and wealth from media, religious, social elites who would otherwise dismiss them as lower class trash.
3) pussyfooters – just want to avoid trouble, conflict, always backing down.
4) Old believers/true believers – they really believe in some race denying religion, economic or political system that will “save everyone”, make everyone in the world a healthy, productive “American”, “Christian” etc.
5) proditors – criminals, obsessed with hating their/our White Indo European people.
This latest liberation theology, anti White Pope seems to be mostly #3 pussyfooter. He’s going with the flow, likes to be liked, likes getting good press from the Rolling Stone Magazine and other Lib media. This Pope likes to be getting invites to speak against Racism (only Whites can be racists) at the United Nations . Likes to be considered for Nobel Peace Prizes ( along with lying perverts like Michael King/Martin Luther King Jr, terrorists Menachem Begin/Yassir Arafat, Nelson Mandela).
This Pope goes with the flow – if the flow ever changes and supporting illegal immigration to the USA, the West becomes a career killer, means he will not get to jet set around the world and be welcomed and praised by wealthy actors, artists, pop stars, if it means he will be abused, bombarded with urine, pussyfoot eras will stop doing the bad things they do.
Jack, I’m not a great believer in conspiracy theories myself, but I believe Bella Dodd was right. She was a high ranking communist who would have known stuff like this.
No need for “conspiracy theories” Stephen. What is occurring is quite simple. Whites are the minority of Catholics. I understand they are down to just 1/3 of all Catholics world wide. So that means the institution is listening to the majority which are brown and it will only get worse for whites in the future.
The only thing that can save the Catholics now is genetic morality. But will they start talking about it, before its too late?
I’d like to get outraged over this, but it’s difficult for me to do so. Why? The reality is that the southern border of the USA has long since been opened up by NAFTA, globalization and the refusal of the gang over in DC to enforce immigration law. Really, the Pope is waaaaay behind the power curve. Far from leading an invasion across the former Mexican-USA border, he is trying to catch up with the mob in order to claim to be its leader.
He might get a photo op, a sound byte or two, some chatter on various electronic devices. Then it will be back to Tiger Woods, the Kardashians, and the latest teleprompter feed from the Oval Office.
Still, it is a sad day when the Church has descended to this…
@R_Moreland
“Far from leading an invasion across the former Mexican-USA border, he is trying to catch up with the mob in order to claim to be its leader.”
Exactly! Well said.
The leadership of the Church are deathly afraid, if they don’t keep up, they will be replaced and in this case their replacements will be brown. This is how it ends for all anti-whites. The browns they championed against their fellow whites, eventually want real brown leadership and kick them into the gutter.
JoeB,
That’s exactly what I’ve read happened in South Africa! The white Marxists were replaced by blacks in the “colour-blind” ANC. And today South Africa has white ghettos; though of course whites on average still make more than blacks, so there’s overwhelming affirmative action. And yea, I’ll stop there on SA to keep things short.
And this $#%^**€ PC Communist Pope is on a roll! Today he announced that the Catholic Church will now make a Saint out of Communist Liberation Theology Bishop Romero in El Salvador. Romero was killed by Conservatives who were disgusted that a high level Catholic Bishop was inching Communist terrorism in the name of “The People.
http://news.yahoo.com/pope-moves-slain-salvadoran-archbishop-romero-nearer-sainthood-133246109.html
I am praying that some Catholic guy is disgusted as weare with this PC, pro Jew, Pro Muslim, anti White Communist Pope – and one lone patriot Catholic guy diverts the Pope’s Lear Jet to ISIS controlled Islamic territory and the Muslims the lead the Pope around on a leash, force him to renounce his faith ( his faith being PC liberalism, Liberation theology Communism), the the Muslims behead this idiot, claim all of El Salvador as Islamic lands, also the Vaticanturned in to a Mosque.
The following Catholic saints, mystics and visionaries, all of whom have received full Church approval in the past have warned that in the “20th. century”, that the Church will be filled with heresy and turmoil, the world will be in confusion and it also will have lost its moral compass.
St. Nilus/5th. c. – St. Hildegard/12th. c. – Venerable Mariana de Jesus Torres/ 17th.c. – Blessed Catherine Emmerich/18th. c. – Blessed Elizabeth Canori-Mora/18th. c. – Marie-Julie Jahenney 18th. c. – Blessed Elena Aeillo/20th. cen. and many others warned that in the 20th century both the world and the Church will have lost the faith to such an extent that God will shortly thereafter visit the most terrible punishment on the Church and world since the Great Flood.
Pope Pius XII said in the 1940’s that the world was worse then than before the Great Flood, Our Lord told Blessed Sister Elena Aiello in 1959, that the world was worse than before the Great Flood, Our Lady told the Japanese nun in 1976, that the punishment coming is so great for mans sins that not a soul alive will not be terrified.
Many of these saints, mystics, stigmatics, visionaries, etc have warned that because of homosexuality, contraception, immodesty in dress, feminism, divorce, pornography, abortion, etc, but mostly for the sins against the first three commandments, which are the most serious as they are against the Majesty of God Himself, that God is going to let our enemies punish us severely. When all seems lost, when both the world and Church seem doomed, then when over half the world is dead, when God’s Justice has been appeased, then, and only then, will God then intervene and turn the tide.
St. Nilus mentions in the 5th. century that ‘ In the 20th. c. when women dress shamefully like men, (and he mentions other sins of these times) then deep drenched in blood shall the world lay’. God warns in scripture and to some of the saints that those who are neutral, who do nothing, who sit on the fence, these “I will vomit from my mouth”. So not only those who commit the above sins and transgressions, but those who do nothing, who support by their “votes” and encouragement, who have not the courage to defend virtue and good, these too will feel the wrath of God even more than the serious than those who commit these crimes. To vote for a Democrat, a party that “publicly’ endorses homosexuality, contraception, abortion, etc, is to assist in these crimes by association. Immodesty in dress; how many “Christian” and Catholic parents allow their daughters to dress like whores and prostitutes, how many moms themselves now dress like the same, how many dads’ do nothing. How many homes have now allowed pornography into their bosom, home movies, internet, etc, “Oh it’s only one part or scene” etc. How many parents say nothing as their children are being indoctrinated in our Public Schools and Universities into Marxist/Atheistic ideology, and do nothing. How many “Christians” practice or have in the past, contraception and even abortion. What kind of a country say’s nothing when its government makes lawful “Partial Birth Abortion” when a hole is drilled into the skull of a baby as it is exiting the womb of its mother and its brains being sucked out before it completely exits – to call it “Partial” birth abortion. And these people’s who allow all this – have the nerve to complain about how terrible these radical Muslims are, how terrible our country is in its attacking and killing so many innocents in other countries for profit, for oil, for power, etc, and the people do nothing.
Yes, these saint’s have warned of a “Great Apostasy” in the Catholic Church, even centuries before, naming our very own time as just prior to an apocalyptic chastisement when nature will rebel against man for his sins, when civil war and revolution will break out suddenly soon in all Western countries, followed by WW3.
Marie-Julie Jahenny, the Briton (French) Stigmatic and mystic (1850-1941), who was shown in 1888 byOur Lord, WW1, WW2 and WW3 in detail, of how Russia will attack and overrun all of Europe and will attack America with her allies with her “secret” armies.
All of Islam will unite with Russia against Europe, then Russia, China and their allies – Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, etc, will attack America from six sides.
Blessed Catherine Emmeich, in the early 1800’s was told by Our Lord that a “New Mass” would come (i.e. the Novus Ordo or new Catholic rituals since Vatican II), that will be “Impious” in His sight. Marie-Julie Jahenny was told in 1904 & 1906, by Our Lord that a “New Mass” would come that would be “Odious” i.e. hateful, in Our Lords sight. These and others have warned that near all the Catholic priests, and clergy, up to the “TOP” will lose the faith for a time and then will come the “Great Chastisement”. Judeo/Freemasonry, the principle enemies of God and His Church , have infiltrated and now run near all the worlds governments, institutions, and faiths, including the Catholic Hierarchy and the Church.
– The Prophecies of Blessed Sister Elena Aiello
– The Prophecies of Alois Irimaier
– WW3 Prophecies and Visions from Central Europe
– The “Three Days Darkness”, warned by St. Padre Pio, Bl. Emmerich an others, which will force and end to WW3.
– The Prophecies of Marie-Julie Jahenny
-Sister Lucia of Fatima said April 7, 1990: Because Russia was not converted, Russia will attack Europe and America.
-In 1984, Pope JPII asked a German mystic of reputable character what he had seen in his visions, to which he said: I saw the sky black with planes and missiles coming out of Russia towards the West (Europe) and two submarines surfacing of the East and West coast of America and firing their missiles at the coastal cities.
– Blessed Sister Elena Aiello, the Italian mystic and stigmatic, said in 1960: Russia will attack and overrun all of Europe and attack America with her secret armies. Every major city in the world will be destroyed by either the War, tidal waves, and earthquakes so large that entire countries will be swallowed up. Over 3/4 of the world will die.
Much, much more: Yes this Pope might very well be later declared an anti-pope along with Pope Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI.
A pope is to die in the late spring, there will be a disputed election, possibly this late spring or next. When this happens, the new pope is visited by two angels who tell him what he is to do immediately upon his election. This new Pope returns the whole Church to its former disciplines, Mass, Sacraments, teachings, condemnations, etc. Vatican II and all its aftermath and all its adherents and supporters will be condemned: When this happens – Satan’s time is up and he yells “so be it WAR”. And God then allows evil to punish evil, for a time, before He intervenes.
Pray, amend your lives.
In 2000, Fr. Dollinger, German Jesuit, Theologian and Seminary Professor, personal friend of then Cardinal Ratzinger, asked him if what Cardinal Bertone had revealed to the world as the whole of the 3rd Secret of Fatima, to which then Cardinal Ratzinger said: No, in the 3rd Secret it is specifically warned by Our Lady not to touch the Sacraments, not to touch the Mass, that an “Evil Council” i.e. Vatican II, will come. – Fatima Crusader, Issues #80. p32, and $92. p.7.
Get ready for the most severe chastisement, with more violence and terror ever seen in the world. A civil war and revolution to break out in America more violent than any in history followed within a few months by WW3. When all is in turmoil and chaos, our enemies attack. No electricity, gas, stores, food, transportation, clothes, utilities, for over a year, nothing but chaos, oppressive martial law, mobs, gangs, and starvation on a scale never imagined in America leading to widespread cannibalism.
You better have something to protect yourself and your family, their will be no “neutrality”, no one will escape the carnage and fighting.
Pray the Rosary every day, wear the Brown Scapular (Blessed by a traditional priest – as there are very few left), and prepare. All this to happen very very soon and so suddenly that it has been warned that some people will even die of heart attacks as the shock will be so sudden and so intense.
If you lean in real close and take a peek, you can just barely see the 729 bar code stamped on the Pope’s little white cap.
One question for pope francis.. ARE YOU GOING TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THESE PEOPLE?? I didn’t think so.. STFU!
How about crossing into the Vatican compound and letting them all stay with you, on the Vat’s dime? What’s that Fran? I didn’t think so…
Jack Ryan:
‘Last year, Francis was featured in a fawning Rolling Stone cover story. This was shortly after he flew his jet to the Italian Mediterranean island Lampedusa to bless the invading African boat people and scold the Italians about their “racism” and “Islamophobia.” Yes, this Liberation Theology Pope is pro-Muslim, pro-homosexual, and most definitely pro-Latino. He’s even on good terms with Castro’s Cuba.’
The flood gates were opened. Now, Europe is up the creek without a paddle.
Thanks Pope!
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/18/italy-prepares-for-war-with-isis-from-the-south/
ITALY PREPARES FOR WAR WITH ISIS FROM THE SOUTH
ROME, Italy — As the Islamic State gains strength in Libya and threatens to overrun Italy with immigrants, Italy finds itself exposed with no way to handle the onslaught.
Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti has said that the Libya situation is “out of control.”
Though Pinotti said that Italy is prepared to defend its seas, she also declared that “Italy cannot be alone to bear the costs of these operations that affect all of Europe.” She believes that once masses of people leave Libya, the problem becomes far more serious.
“The real issue is how to prevent people from leaving,” she said.
She also stated that “a group of smugglers has been formed, causing an increase in barges headed to Italy.” She suggested that the key would be to stop the human traffickers by eliminating their means of transport while still on Libyan territory, something that would require Libya’s permission.
Pinotti said that to destroy the barges “we need an agreement with Libya, something like what D’Alema had with Albania,” referring to a 1998 agreement between Italy and the Albanian government to prevent illegal immigration.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, told the Italian Parliament that the situation with Libya “is getting worse” and that “time is running out.”
Unlike the Defense Minister, Gentiloni is still pointing toward a diplomatic solution. “The only remedy is political,” he said. “We don’t want crusades.”
Gentiloni also underscored the risk of new coalitions of jihadists, with ISIS merging with locals. In Libya, he said, “there is a manifest risk of local groups and ISIS banding together.”